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A rundown of the different ways Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia are opening up.

The first phase of Ontario's pandemic reopening plan begins Tuesday, but officials are still asking the public to maintain physical distancing. "I just ask, hang in there a little bit longer," Premier Doug Ford said.

The federal government is planning stronger measures to deal with a looming influx of people arriving from the United States, a clear sign Canada is bracing for the realities of life after lockdown while living next door to the world's largest COVID-19 hotspot.

Critics and green advocates say Ontario Power Generation's purchase of three natural gas assets from TC Energy will not only make it difficult for Ontario to meet its climate targets, it will also hurt ratepayers' wallets.

Ontario's premier is calling for a national strategy on contact tracing.

The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario says it assembled a list of about 200 nurses who were ready and willing to help in long-term care, but the Ontario government waited weeks to deploy them.

The provincial government’s attorney general, Doug Downey, filed a motion asking an Ontario court to dismiss the young people’s case challenging its environmental policy on Wednesday, arguing that it would be impossible to prove the allegations of harm.

In the time of the novel coronavirus, Canada and the United States seem to be playing to type: the friendly apologizers of the Great White North coming together against a common enemy, America's combative revolutionaries threatening to tear each other apart.

Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own advice.

“At this point I will give the benefit of the doubt to the government… but we will be watching very closely,” said Ontario NDP environment critic Ian Arthur.

“This is all that’s on my mind,” Premier Doug Ford said of the looming shortage. “I don’t sleep at night.”

"The hard truth is, the more time we have, the more lives we can save," said a visibly grim Premier Doug Ford.

No aspect of Canadian life has been left untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic, including politics, and pundits agree the premier of Ontario is one of those most transformed by the outbreak.

As just one example of how the virus is already impacting local flood preparedness activities, the community centre near Ottawa that became a staging ground for the regional flood response last year and was toured by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, closed on March 16 due to COVID-19 and moved its flood preparedness meeting online.

Doug Ford and a coterie of his top ministers will travel to Ottawa later this week with a list of funding requests they’d like to see covered in the next federal budget, including a sharp increase in transit funding to help deliver the Ontario premier’s subway-centric plans.